Routledge The Companion To Cinema And Politics 09781138391680

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight parts – Approaches to Cinema and Politics; Cinema Activism and Opposition; Film Propaganda Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary – this collection covers a broad range of topics including: Third Cinema cinema after 9/11 eco-activism human rights independent Chinese documentary film festivals manifestoes film policies film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis Soviet propaganda the impact of neoliberalism on cinema and many others. This Companion foregrounds the key debates concepts approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking itself is a political act.